on the elastic properties of glasses at low temperatures is given. New experimental data on
the ultrasonic attenuation in vitreous silica and borosilicate glass in the temperature range
between 0.3 and 4 K and at frequencies between 30 and about 500 MHz are presented and
explained by this theory. We propose that over the entire temperature range from our lowest
temperature of 0.3 to about 100 K the attenuation is due to the relaxation of defects with …